Research activities

Researches as Associate Professor

It can be noticed that, since my PhD degree, I had to apply a slight change on my research topics to address the specificity of the microworld. Actually, in a first time, my research activities have been mainly related with the European project NANOMA. This project consisted to design microrobotic system for targeted drug delivery through the cardiovascular system. In parallel, I have also contributed to the development of micromanipulation activities of the laboratory. Firstly, the micromanipulation tasks have been devoted for intra-cytoplasmic applications. Next, this research activities have evolved to object micromanipulation to be placed in the focus of a light beam within the ANR³ project PIANHO. The different projects in which I have been involved are reported in Research Projects.

Prior research activities: doctorate degree and post-doctorate

I have defended my PhD in Robotics in 2007 within the Robotics, Action, and Perception (RAP) group of the Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems⁴ (LAAS), CNRS⁵, under the supervision of Viviane Cadenat, Associate Professor at Paul Sabatier University of Toulouse, France. My PhD thesis dealt with the design of multi-sensor based control strategies allowing a mobile robot to perform vision-based tasks amidst possibly occluding obstacles.

 

Between 2007 and 2008, I joined the Lagadic team at Inria⁶ Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique as a post-doctoral fellow on sensory control for unmanned aerial vehicles. My postdoctoral fellow has been supported by “Sensory Control for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles” (SCUAV) ANR project. The main objective was to improve multi-sensor-based servoing tasks for unmanned aerial vehicles. The idea was to design robust control law that combine different sensory data directly at the control level. Especially, I have contributed to the design of a new on-line sensor self-calibration based on the sensor/robot interaction links.